Kelso
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- Mar 5, 2006
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so i did a little detialing for 2 guys a few weeks ago and their friend/neighbor was impressed and gave me a call to do his 2 cars. this is the first one, his wifes car.
the wheels were pretty damn dirty and thers so many damn spokes!anyways heres what i did...
washed with:
pressure washer
poorboys SSS
Shmitt
bug squash diluted 3/1
Clayed with pinnacle polyclay and DP universal clay lube
the paint was in decent shape, a bit swirly but overall it wasnt too bad to wash, and the claying went fairly quickly. i washed the whole body, then clayed and rewashed in sections.
after the claying i attacked the wheels.
P21s gel wheel cleaner was sprayed on and let sit for a few minutes on each wheel and tire. i then scrubbed the tires with the OXO tire brush and used my wheel brush(i think its ez reach or something?) to get all the insides of the wheels. this took quite a while because of the wheel design but they came out looking fantastic! i love p21s gel but the price makes me reserve it for only the deserving wheels, like this car.
so next i pulled in to the garage and busted out the PC. i tried a few different combos but overall was using the orange wolfgang pad with xmt3 and following with poorboys PWS on a white polishing pad. on some areas i used a yellow pad first for a little more cut
all of it was done at speeds 5 or 6.
i even used some PWS on the orange pad on all the windows, it cleaned up all the water marks and made the windows super slick!
all the wheels were polished with Nevr Dull because i clayed the lips and marred them a little( i used a more agressive bar on the wheels)and coated in DP wheel glaze and the tires were dressed with surfcity's tire pro. i really like this stuff...i still havent been able to try out all the samples meghan so graciously sent me( i swear i will soon!) but this tire dressing is a real winner. i already bought another big bottle of it.
this picture shows the wheel completed and the fender was polished up but not quite done yet.
the outside was finished off with a coat of souveran paste:awesome:
we all know how good that stuff looks so you can use your imagination, when i was odne it was dark so i didnt get any good pictures...i took a couple but you cant see anything really.
the interior was also done. i cleaned it with DP total interior cleaner, shampooed the carpets and gave it some 303 protectant. i treated the leather seats and door cards with poorboys leather stuff and actually waxed the wood and aluminum trim inside the car with maxwax, it looked great i promise but like i said it was dark when i finihsed so i dont have any pics to show for it
all in all it went pretty smoothly. i showed up around 10 AM and left around 8 PM. just took my time and tried to make sure it was perfect, like a detail should be done
... so all that work will go towards paying for the ink im getting on my back this weekend:righton:
the wheels were pretty damn dirty and thers so many damn spokes!anyways heres what i did...
washed with:
pressure washer
poorboys SSS
Shmitt
bug squash diluted 3/1
Clayed with pinnacle polyclay and DP universal clay lube
the paint was in decent shape, a bit swirly but overall it wasnt too bad to wash, and the claying went fairly quickly. i washed the whole body, then clayed and rewashed in sections.
after the claying i attacked the wheels.
P21s gel wheel cleaner was sprayed on and let sit for a few minutes on each wheel and tire. i then scrubbed the tires with the OXO tire brush and used my wheel brush(i think its ez reach or something?) to get all the insides of the wheels. this took quite a while because of the wheel design but they came out looking fantastic! i love p21s gel but the price makes me reserve it for only the deserving wheels, like this car.
so next i pulled in to the garage and busted out the PC. i tried a few different combos but overall was using the orange wolfgang pad with xmt3 and following with poorboys PWS on a white polishing pad. on some areas i used a yellow pad first for a little more cut
all of it was done at speeds 5 or 6.
i even used some PWS on the orange pad on all the windows, it cleaned up all the water marks and made the windows super slick!
all the wheels were polished with Nevr Dull because i clayed the lips and marred them a little( i used a more agressive bar on the wheels)and coated in DP wheel glaze and the tires were dressed with surfcity's tire pro. i really like this stuff...i still havent been able to try out all the samples meghan so graciously sent me( i swear i will soon!) but this tire dressing is a real winner. i already bought another big bottle of it.
this picture shows the wheel completed and the fender was polished up but not quite done yet.
the outside was finished off with a coat of souveran paste:awesome:
we all know how good that stuff looks so you can use your imagination, when i was odne it was dark so i didnt get any good pictures...i took a couple but you cant see anything really.
the interior was also done. i cleaned it with DP total interior cleaner, shampooed the carpets and gave it some 303 protectant. i treated the leather seats and door cards with poorboys leather stuff and actually waxed the wood and aluminum trim inside the car with maxwax, it looked great i promise but like i said it was dark when i finihsed so i dont have any pics to show for it
all in all it went pretty smoothly. i showed up around 10 AM and left around 8 PM. just took my time and tried to make sure it was perfect, like a detail should be done
... so all that work will go towards paying for the ink im getting on my back this weekend:righton:
